The parents complained, and complained, and complained again. It didn't matter if their kids were black or white, at-risk or honor roll. Year after year, they said similar things about Maria Raysses-Whipple and what she was doing in her classroom: botching grades. Putting down students. Making them hate school.

Robin Wikle stands before a wall of portraits of other people's dead children. The middle-schooler who took his friend's father's cancer medication. The 19-year-old who took unknown pills, sparking a mother's frantic call to 911. The two brothers found dead at home - three weeks apart.

The media reports Curtis Larson's erroneous tale of his son and daughter-in-law's death aboard one of the airplanes that crashed into the World Trade Center. By Natalie Pompilio Natalie Pompilio is a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Pompilio, a frequent contributor to AJR, is a reporter for New Orleans' Times-Picayune.

TAMPA - The billionaires ate chicken wraps from the school cafeteria. They donned goggles in a chemistry class. And they chatted up teachers whose lives they have drastically changed. Bill and Melinda Gates, one of the wealthiest couples in America, spent Wednesday at Tampa's Jefferson High School checking on their $100 million investment in Hillsborough County to reform teacher training and pay.

The fastest growing public school district in Florida doesn't have football, school lunches or busing. It doesn't get a grade from the state, and it operates free of the rules and scrutiny that dog most public schools.

Hailed as a money-making model, Florida Virtual School's effort to bring in millions in extra income is falling short and the venture may soon be in the red. Charged by lawmakers to aggressively seek revenue, the nation's largest state-funded online K-12 school last year launched a deal with a private company to take over sales of its courses outside of Florida.

Florida has its 12th public university. As the state's other universities are about to see their coffers drained by hundreds of millions of dollars, Gov. Rick Scott on Friday signed a bill creating Florida Polytechnic. The bill had sparked an intense reaction across the state, with everyone from students, faculty, politicians and business leaders weighing in.

Big step for SUNY Albany: Havidán Rodríguez, a higher education leader in Texas, is the first Hispanic president of the State University of New York at Albany. "I am honored and privileged to have been chosen to serve as the University at Albany's next president," Rodríguez said.

The National Center for Education Statistics this month released a congressionally mandated annual report summarizing development and trends in education. The 2017 Condition of Education reports some of the latest data by race and ethnicity.

As the number of Hispanic students enrolled in college has increased so has the discussion of the roles of the institutions that are educating them. A large portion of Hispanic students are concentrated in a small number of colleges, which are called Hispanic-serving institutions or HSIs, in a few key states.

Success Academy Charter Schools, a network of 41 schools in New York with a high Latino student enrollment, was awarded the 2017 Broad Prize for charter schools this month along with $250,000 in prize money.

So how do Latino parents judge the quality of their child's school? The good old-fashioned way: by reviewing their child's report card. A recent poll conducted by the Leadership Conference Fund, a nonprofit civil rights group based in Washington, D.C., found that 86 percent of Latino families said their child's report card topped the list in judging school quality.

With President Trump's proposed federal budget calling for cuts in after-school programing, the nonprofit advocacy group Afterschool Alliance released an issue brief this month highlighting several programs they say are helping students who are learning English.

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